"The rising and the setting of the sun and of the moon, the phases of the moon, and Venus and Saturn's rings, and many other important phenomena, were in accordance with the forecasts in the astronomical yearbooks," (p. 3)

"And then one day Ulrich stopped wanting to be a young man of promise," (p. 46).

"...whether what it is trained to search out is the vulnerable spot in a problem or that in a physical opponent," (p. 47).

"In this way sport and functionalism have deservedly come into their own, displacing the out-of-date conceptions of genius and human greatness," (p. 47).

"It gave him a prick like a hot needle," (p. 130).

"But when the man, diving this, made straight for her, although for a long time he had been neglecting her quite callously, she would be hurt and squabble with him and make reproachful remarks, so postponing what she herself could hardly bear...